January 28, 2018

 I ignored my alarm for a little while this morning but I did eventually wake up earlier than I would have liked to. And then I didn't really accomplish anything with that extra time, so I probably should have just stayed in bed. Oh well.

I spent my morning doing laundry, watching videos, and clicking around the internet. I live an exciting life.

Throughout the afternoon I made tiger bread, also known as giraffe bread. I think it's European in origin. There is a bread recipe, which is just a regular mixed white/wheat recipe, and then a crust recipe, which consists of rice flour, sesame oil, yeast, and some other things. The crust recipe creates a paste which is spread over the bread. In the oven this paste dries out and cracks, creating the distinctive flavor and the tiger/giraffe look. It's an interesting concept and it totally works. I followed a recipe that made eight big rolls and they came out looking just like all the pictures I've seen online. They were super crunchy on the outside and really soft and fluffy on the inside, and they tasted really good. Given my mediocre success with bread making, I was pretty surprised how well they turned out. I'm interested to see how they hold up in the coming days.

Near the end of the process while I was waiting for things to rise and then bake, I played CoD: WW2. I had my best game of War ever while the the rolls were in the oven, and it could have been a little better but I kept running over to check and make sure they weren't burning. It was on Operation Breakout and I ended up getting 110 kills, 76 of which came in the first round, and my score per minute was 687 (that is really high). I wish I could play that well all the time.

After dinner I ran on the elliptical and took a shower. Obviously late in the day but I still accomplished both, so there. Then I played CoD: WW2 for another half an hour before calling it good. I kind of want to keep playing because of the double XP weekend, but I managed to prestige and get back up to level 21 this weekend, which isn't bad.

I also played a little more Staxel tonight. I was only going to play a little bit and then I played a little bit more than that. It is definitely one of those games. It also takes a lot of work to get the materials to craft things, and I'm hoping that doesn't become a reason I stop playing the game. I imagine once I can get a farm going I'll have a better cash flow and things will be a little easier.

I didn't work on my article at all this weekend, even though I avoided a lot of other things because I wasn't working on it, so that will have to be my focus tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have time at work, because it would be nice to finish it tomorrow. We'll see.